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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Equatorial Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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